[parisc-linux] palo II
Bjoern A. Zeeb
bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net
Mon, 2 Jun 2003 19:40:03 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> > > When palo cannot open the kernel and errors out shouldn't it fall back
> > > to the dialog and ask one to which fields to change instead of simply
> > > running into a dead end where I think I can only recover from with
> > > physical access to the machine ?
> >
> > The same issue has annoyed me too.
> > But not enough to hack on palo. I only work on machines remotely
> > if I have remote power control (eg A500).
> >
> > Paul Bame is happy to take any patches people have to improve
> > this behaviour. Source is available via anon CVS:
> > cvs -d pserver:anonymous@cvs.parisc-linux.org login
> > cvs -d pserver:anonymous@cvs.parisc-linux.org co palo
>
> on sunday eve I already dowloaded 1.2 src tarball and had a quick look
> at it. I may come up with a very dirty quick hack but I really hate
> gotos in C.
>
> The Problem is that I am currently in the middle of my final exams.
> Perhaps I might come up with a patch next weekend.
forget next weekend ;-) Though the machine time is out of sync :(
a) I am no debian package builder but in debian/rules dh_testdir is
unknown - whatever it should do - as are a lotta other things. Seems
some package(?) is missing locally.
b) going to test (press me your thumbs it will work else I will
have to find a kernel to tftp boot ...) ...
going back to my old 2.5.60-pa1 instead of 69 typo...
still old palo on bootup ... maybe installing the new one would be
better for testing ;-))
c) *hhm* debian/rules build doesn't do make iplboot ? ok, doing and
installing manually ...
d) re-run palo
e) reboot 'n' pray ... (is this a song ? ;-)
f) Bingo:
--- cut ---
palo ipl 1.2bz01 bz@apollo Mon May 26 04:02:26 UTC 2003
Partition Start(MB) End(MB) Id Type
1 1 30 f0 Palo
2 31 156 82 swap
3 157 2046 83 ext2
PALO(F0) partition contains:
0/vmlinux32 2955343 bytes @ 0x48000
Command line for kernel: 'root=/dev/sdb3 HOME=/ TERM=linux console=ttyS0 palo_kernel=3/boot/vmlinux-2.5.60-pa1'
Selected kernel: /boot/vmlinux-2.5.60-pa1 from partition 3
ERROR: open /boot/vmlinux-2.5.60-pa1 from partition 3 failed
Current command line:
3/boot/vmlinux-2.5.60-pa1 root=/dev/sdb3 HOME=/ TERM=linux console=ttyS0
0: 3/boot/vmlinux-2.5.60-pa1
1: root=/dev/sdb3
2: HOME=/
3: TERM=linux
4: console=ttyS0
Edit which field?
(or 'b' to boot with this command line)? 0
3/boot/vmlinux-2.5.69-pa435
Current command line:
3/boot/vmlinux-2.5.69-pa435 root=/dev/sdb3 HOME=/ TERM=linux console=ttyS0
0: 3/boot/vmlinux-2.5.69-pa435
1: root=/dev/sdb3
2: HOME=/
3: TERM=linux
4: console=ttyS0
Edit which field?
(or 'b' to boot with this command line)? b
Command line for kernel: 'root=/dev/sdb3 HOME=/ TERM=linux console=ttyS0 palo_kernel=3/boot/vmlinux-2.5.69-pa435'
Selected kernel: /boot/vmlinux-2.5.69-pa435 from partition 3
ERROR: open /boot/vmlinux-2.5.69-pa435 from partition 3 failed
Current command line:
3/boot/vmlinux-2.5.69-pa435 root=/dev/sdb3 HOME=/ TERM=linux console=ttyS0
0: 3/boot/vmlinux-2.5.69-pa435
1: root=/dev/sdb3
2: HOME=/
3: TERM=linux
4: console=ttyS0
Edit which field?
(or 'b' to boot with this command line)? 0
3/boot/vmlinux-2.5.69-pa1
Current command line:
3/boot/vmlinux-2.5.69-pa1 root=/dev/sdb3 HOME=/ TERM=linux console=ttyS0
0: 3/boot/vmlinux-2.5.69-pa1
1: root=/dev/sdb3
2: HOME=/
3: TERM=linux
4: console=ttyS0
Edit which field?
(or 'b' to boot with this command line)? b
Command line for kernel: 'root=/dev/sdb3 HOME=/ TERM=linux console=ttyS0 palo_kernel=3/boot/vmlinux-2.5.69-pa1'
Selected kernel: /boot/vmlinux-2.5.69-pa1 from partition 3
ELF32 executable
Entry 001002a0 first 00100000 n 3
Segment 0 load 00100000 size 1688080 mediaptr 0x1000
Segment 1 load 0029e000 size 307316 mediaptr 0x19e000
Segment 2 load 002ec000 size 438400 mediaptr 0x1ea000
...
--- /cut ---
g) here is the patch. Thanks I remember basic for the goto ;-)
peherhaps ignore the part with the version number ...
--- ./ipl/ipl.c.orig 2003-01-14 19:44:49.000000000 +0000
+++ ./ipl/ipl.c 2003-05-26 03:34:03.000000000 +0000
@@ -367,6 +367,7 @@
}
}
+interactive_loop:
if (is_interactive)
interact(&f);
@@ -510,7 +511,9 @@
(partition[kern_part - 1].id != 0x83 && partition[kern_part - 1].id != 0xfd) )
{
printf("ERROR: Partition %d must be ext2\n", kern_part);
- while(1);
+
+ is_interactive = 1;
+ goto interactive_loop;
}
pp = &partition[kern_part - 1];
@@ -527,7 +530,9 @@
{
printf("ERROR: open %s from partition %d failed\n",
kern_name, kern_part);
- while(1);
+
+ is_interactive = 1;
+ goto interactive_loop;
}
bkern_fd = byteio_open(kern_fd);
--- ./lib/common.h.orig 2003-05-26 03:34:11.000000000 +0000
+++ ./lib/common.h 2003-05-26 03:34:18.000000000 +0000
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
#include <asm/byteorder.h>
#include <linux/genhd.h>
-#define PALOVERSION "1.2"
+#define PALOVERSION "1.2bz01"
/* size of I/O block used in HP firmware */
#define FW_BLOCKSIZE 2048
--
Greetings
Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
56 69 73 69 74 http://www.zabbadoz.net/